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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 17 – March 19, 2023 781 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 11 · Issue 78 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

fdic.gov · 11 sources

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Search Is Dying (2022)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

    fdic.gov · 11 outlets

  2. Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

    home.treasury.gov · 1 outlets

  3. Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake

    goodreason.substack.co · 1 outlets

  4. My startup banking story

    mitchellh.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Most data work seems fundamentally worthless

    ludic.mataroa.blog · 1 outlets

  2. Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

    dagster.io · 1 outlets

  3. Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phenomena'

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  5. Banking in uncertain times

    bitsaboutmoney.com · 1 outlets

  6. Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  7. Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

    riskybiznews.substack. · 1 outlets

  8. Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  9. Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. Governments should compete for residents, not businesses

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit

    vice.com · 1 outlets

  2. Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model

    crfm.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021)

    devtalk.blender.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

    ehmorris.com · 2 outlets

  3. Battery-free Game Boy (2020)

    freethegameboy.info · 1 outlets

  4. Epic Games to pay $245M for tricking users into making unwanted charges

    ftc.gov · 1 outlets

  5. ChatGPT generated a puzzle game

    puzzledpenguin.substac · 1 outlets

  6. How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb

    chriskiehl.com · 1 outlets

Technology 593 stories

  1. Loopholes in Google’s data safety labels

    theregister.com · 5 outlets

  2. LLaMa running at 5 tokens/second on a Pixel 6

    ai.facebook.com · 5 outlets

  3. Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off

    seattletimes.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  2. GPT-4

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  3. Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  4. Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

    blog.alexellis.io · 1 outlets

  5. Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  6. My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account

    jeffgeerling.com · 1 outlets

  7. Reliability: It’s not great

    community.fly.io · 1 outlets

  8. Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health

    jonathanhaidt.substack · 2 outlets

  9. A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

    jailbreakchat.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. Show HN: Scribble Diffusion – Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

    genmon.github.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

    da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: AskHN

    patterns.app · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail server

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

    github.com · 4 outlets

  6. Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface

    github.com · 1 outlets

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